One of Italy's brightest literary lights reinvents travel writing with a seductive, intoxicating celebration fo the magical saltwater city "Venice is a fish," writes Tiziano Scarpa. "It's like a vast sole stretched out against the deep. How did this marvelous beast make its way up the Adriatic and fetch up here, of all places?" Paying homage to his native city in a lyrical ...(展开全部)

Two best friends, a minnow and a tadpole, are practically inseparable until the tadpole grows legs and decides to explore the world beyond the pond. When the tadpole, now a frog, returns to tell his friend of the extraordinary things he’s seen, the minnow, now a fish, tries to follow in his footsteps, but quickly finds that land is not what he expected. Friendship truly saves t...(展开全部)

[美] 李欧·李奥尼 1910年5月出生于荷兰阿姆斯特丹，父亲是比利时犹太商人，母亲是女高音歌唱家。因家在美术馆附近，舅舅们又是建筑师、画家和艺术品收藏家，所以他从小就得以浸润在浓郁的艺术氛围之中。13岁起，他随家人辗转美国、意大利。1935年获得经济学博士学位。1945年，欧洲掀起反犹太浪潮，他们被迫举家走避美国。 李奥尼是一个才华横溢、不受拘束的艺术天才，绘画、雕刻、平面设计、印刷、陶艺、摄影......样样精通，曾任美国《财富》杂志设计主管长达10年。其间，他多次在欧洲和美国举办个人画展、设计展，并曾担任美国平面造型艺术学会主席、1953年度国际设计大会主席。1955年获美国平面造型艺术协会最佳广告制作美术指导奖、1956年获建筑联盟金牌奖。1984年获颁美国平面造型艺术学会奖时，他受到这样的评价：他通过自己的艺术创作、设计创作，对设计领域的领...(展开全部)

Renowned historian, and author of A Short History of Byzantium, John Julius Norwich's classic history of Venice A History of Venice tells the story of this most remarkable of cities from its founding in the fifth century, through its unrivalled status for over a thousand years as one of the world's busiest and most powerful city states, until its fall at the hands of Napoleon i...(展开全部)

"Frederic Lane has achieved what is the often unfulfilled dream of every historian who has devoted his entire work to the exploration of partial aspects of a single broad subject: he has given us a comprehensive, thoughtful, readable, beautifully illustrated general history of Venice from the origins to the beginning of decline."--'Speculum.'

△著者简介 弗雷德里克•C. 莱恩（Frederic C. Lane，1900—1984），美国历史学家，毕业于哈佛大学，曾任教于明尼苏达大学、约翰•霍普金斯大学，曾任意大利历史研究学会主席、美国历史学会主席、经济史学会主席、国际经济史学会主席，还是《经济史学刊》编审、美国艺术与科学院院士、美国中世纪史学会会士，获得1980年的国际伽利略奖。 他专注于研究威尼斯共和国以及航海活动，著有《文艺复兴时期的威尼斯船舶与造船者》（Venetian ships and shipbuilders of the Renaissance）、《威尼斯商人安德烈亚•巴尔巴里戈，1418—1449》（Andrea Barbarigo，merchant of Venice，1418-1449）、《威尼斯社会与经济史研究》（Studies in Venetian social...(展开全部)

Traces the rise ot empire of this city from its 5th century beginnings all the way through until 1797 when Napolean put an end to the thousand year-old Republic. 32 pages of black and white photos, 4 maps and charts. Review At once the most comprehensive and the most engaging history of Venice available in English, this book will be treasured by all those who share the author's...(展开全部)

John Julius Norwich's dazzling history of Venice from its origins to its eighteenth century fall. 'Lord Norwich has loved and understood Venice as well as any other Englishman has ever done. He has put readers of his generation more in his debt than any other English writer' - Peter Levi, "The Sunday Times".

弗雷德里克•勒努瓦 哲学家、社会学家， 法国社会科学高等学院学者， 法国文化频道《天空之根》的制作人之一， 所著《世界的灵魂》《幸福，一次哲学之旅》等书被翻译成二十多种语言。